enterprise storage

As your organization grows, you need the ability to quickly and non-disruptively scale storage capacity to meet the increasing amounts of high-density graphic images, streaming media and other unstructured data. However, when using traditional storage methods, it can be complicated and expensive for you to scale capacity to meet your needs.
In this second of a series of informative e-books from Exablox, we take a look at the di?iculties of traditional storage approaches, and o?er simple, practical ways to make your data storage easier to scale.

Your information is a core business asset and differentiator. But traditional data storage can add costs disproportionate to its potential value. How can you drive down your total cost of ownership and eliminate unnecessary costs, without compromising enterprise class features?
Eliminate storage costs that undermine the business value of your organization’s information. In this fourth of a series of informative e-books from Exablox, we take a look at the costs of traditional storage approaches, and offer simple, practical ways that you can cut these costs while getting more for your money.

When it comes to the increasingly complex task of managing data storage, many small and midsize organizations face even greater challenges than large, global enterprises.
Small and midsize companies have ever-increasing volumes of information to manage and secure, and they are confronting a number of difficulties when it comes to storage. Among the biggest hurdles:
›› Scaling storage as the business grows rapidly
›› Meeting the rising expense of data storage capacity
›› Dealing with the complexity of management and architecture
›› Devoting precious staff time managing storage and data backup
Whereas larger organizations have significant IT budgets and staff to handle storage-related challenges, small and midsize companies lack the IT resources to dedicate to storage management. Fortunately, there are new approaches to data storage on the market that can help such companies address their data storage needs without requiring dedicated storage management resources, while at the same ti

Object-based storage (referred to as OBS throughout this document) platforms continue to perpetuate cloud and enterprise IT infrastructure. As businesses move toward petabyte-scale data storage, OBS solutions are turning out to be the right choice for balancing scale, complexity, and costs. By way of their core design principles, OBS platforms deliver unprecedented scale at reduced complexity and reduced costs over the long term. Early OBS platforms suffered from "necessity crisis," were too
cumbersome to deploy and, in some cases, caused a platform lock-in because of their proprietary access mechanisms. In spite of their from-the-ground-up design, a departure from how traditional SAN and NAS arrays are deployed and, more importantly, a lack of standard interfaces made it difficult for
IT organizations to deploy OBS solutions in the infrastructure. Thanks to Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift becoming de facto access interfaces, this situation has changed.

Not storing data is cheaper than storing it. As enterprise data continues to grow and IT budgets remain flat, organizations need to more effectively maximize existing storage capacity and manage storage spend based on data value. In this white paper, Enterprise Strategy Group Sr. Analyst Mark Peters demonstrates how IBM's Information Lifecycle Governance solutions can help IT buyers improve the information economics for their organizations by curtailing data growth through defensible disposal of data.

In this white paper, IDC examines how IBM's Storwize family of storage offerings is changing the game by delivering a robust enterprise grade virtualization platform that is efficient, cost-effective, and optimized.

Not storing data is cheaper than storing it. As enterprise data continues to grow and IT budgets remain flat, organizations need to more effectively maximize existing storage capacity and manage storage spend based on data value. In this white paper, Enterprise Strategy Group Sr. Analyst Mark Peters demonstrates how IBM's Information Lifecycle Governance solutions can help IT buyers improve the information economics for their organizations by curtailing data growth through defensible disposal of data.

Analyst firm, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), makes the case for storing backup, archive and content repository data in the cloud.
Learn how IBM Cloud Object Storage addresses these use cases and helps companies lower costs, provide higher availability and protect against unauthorized access to their data.
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Analyst firm, Enterprise Strategy Group, examines how companies can leverage cloud-based data lakes and self-service analytics for timely business insights that weren’t possible until now.
And learn how IBM Cloud Object Storage, as a persistent storage layer, powers analytics and business intelligence solutions on the IBM Cloud.
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IBM has used the Storwize architecture to produce multiple storage systems across different usage segments to meet different customer needs. The ability to scale with a common underlying architecture has proven to deliver multiple benefits to IBM customers. Features developed for high-end enterprise systems now meet customer needs in other, more price conscious segments. The leverage from a common base for systems helps reduce development and support costs which are reflected in product costs for customers. The Storwize architecture also builds on Intel-based hardware, which provides continued advances with each new generation yet retains the same fundamental architecture. Customers also benefit from a storage architecture that provides a consistent experience across multiple products and generations.

In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying Storwize V7000. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Storwize V7000 on their organizations. Storwize V7000 is a virtualized storage system designed to consolidate block and file workloads into a single storage system for simplicity of management, reduced cost, highly scalable capacity, performance, and high availability.

SAP users have been slow to adopt cloud computing, but IBM PureFlex Systems offer the potential to transform the server, storage and network infrastructures that support SAP enterprise environments and extend management services to non-SAP applications. Read this executive summary to learn how PureFlex Systems can dramatically reduce costs and cycle times.

In March 2014, Cisco Systems commissioned Forrester
Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study
and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of the Cisco UCS on their organizations.
To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated
with a Cisco UCS implementation, Forrester interviewed
several customers with multiple years of experience using
Cisco UCS. Cisco Unified Computing System and servers
unify computing, networking, management, virtualization, and
storage access into a single integrated architecture

Enterprises are using applications to gain competitive advantage.
Success in this technology-based environment requires agility and
flexibility. And if IT wants to be the primary technology solution partner
for the business, the IT staff needs processes and tools in place to
deliver solutions at a much faster pace.
As digital services propel more and more business processes, cloud
technology is proving to be a crucial addition to the IT services portfolio.
It is far more scalable, and in many cases more cost effective, than its
predecessors. Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and softwaredefined
data center technologies—virtualized computing, networking,
and storage—have helped IT address the “fast IT” challenge.

The software as a service (SaaS) model of application delivery, more commonly known as ‘cloud deployment’, in which software features are accessed through a Web browser, is an excellent way for manufacturing companies to get the bene?ts of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems without the need to build additional IT infrastructure. ERP functionality delivered “from the cloud” avoids the complexity and costs that often accompany on premisess ERP implementations, and typically provides a much more favorable total cost of ownership, compared to legacy on premisess deployment. Companies subscribe to the software features that they need and can add new ones as business requirements change, without buying additional servers or storage to support new functionality. The ERP features are the same as for an on premises ERP system, except that it is hosted and maintained on the Cloud provider’s infrastructure.

Appcito CAFE (Cloud Application Front End) is an easy-to-deploy, uni?ed and cloud-native service enabling cloud application teams to select and deploy enterprise-grade L4 to L7 application network services. The multi-cloud CAFE service is available for the OpenStack
open-source cloud computing software platform. OpenStack is a multivendor ecosystem used to deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions. It allows users to bring compute, storage, and networking resources into private and public clouds through a set of open APIs.

According to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Office 365 is Microsoft’s most strategic API. But to realize
the potential of this business collaboration platform, Microsoft and its partners have to convince
business and IT leaders that it offers levels of security, privacy, and compliance that are equal to or
higher than those of their existing on-premise solutions. Even though a high percentage of enterprises
are adopting cloud storage and compute within their businesses, the adoption of cloud-based content
and collaboration products is by no means universal. Concerns relating to governance, risk, and
compliance with regard to cloud services are understandable, but it is not unusual to find them
overstated.

Over the past couple of years the mid-range storage market has become a hotbed of ongoing innovation. The mid-market demands enterprise capability -- performance, resiliency, and features -- but with an innovative level of simplification and a unique level of adaptability. In this Product in Depth paper, Taneja Group surveys mid-range storage systems across key criteria that represent an intersection of mid-range storage challenges, with specific focus on HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage.

To respond to rapid business environmental changes, enterprises are now adopting a more agile and services-oriented model for centralized IT, often characterized as “private cloud.” Public cloud service providers have become adept at adding new customers, new applications, and more compute-intensive workloads with minimal delay. While traditional enterprise IT may not be able to fully emulate this model, they can use virtualization – both at the levels of servers and storage – to come as close to the cloud as possible. Read this Evaluator Group paper to learn how HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage platforms can be foundational to developing IT agility.

As business purposes have changed over the years, IT approaches and infrastructures have had to change in lock-step to serve them optimally. IT professionals are now combining the best of the centralized approach – via virtualization, federation, and clouds of all sorts – with the best of the decentralized model – via mobile and localized consumption and production. In this paper, Enterprise Strategy Group examines approaches to IT operational challenges and business requirements. Learn how HP Converged Storage’s comprehensive approach represents a logical evolution development in storage, delivering ease, flexibility and cost-efficiency all in one.

This Enterprise Strategy Group paper introduces the common characteristics and abilities of flash implementations and categorizes different approaches. It also considers HP’s offerings from the perspective of a “flash-optimized” storage system while representing both IT and business implications.

This Enterprise Strategy Group Solution Impact Analysis examines how well-designed, executed and implemented storage -- such as converged storage solutions from HP -- can elevate storage from a necessity and a cost center to an asset that contributes to the business. The outcome of a series of in-depth interviews conducted by ESG analysts, performed with senior IT professionals in various industries, this report confirms that ROI is a real-world value that HP Converged Storage customers are realizing today.

This paper is the outcome of a series of in-depth interviews ESG analysts performed with senior IT professionals in various industries. The objective was to determine the direct and indirect value customers derive from using HP Converged Storage solutions to address their primary storage needs, and more specifically their returns on information—such as gaining more value from corporate data for better decisions; infrastructure—in the form of lowering costs and increasing infrastructure agility; and individuals—including time savings and reduced management complexity.